Indignity in death
Unmarked graves in Bloomington indicate long history of racism
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Unmarked graves in Bloomington indicate long history of racism
Thirty-six years before he’d lead the program he devoted his life to, Scott Dolson mopped the floor at Assembly Hall. He filled up the water coolers. He cleaned the backboards. They had to be spotless — not a single handprint — just as The General preferred.
The Central Indiana Presbytery voted Friday to bring formal charges within the church’s court against former Hope Presbyterian Church pastor Dan Herron and move the investigation to a trial.
The Central Indiana Presbytery and Dan Herron deny the allegations.
Pamela S. Whitten would have been even more excited for the day had she not been so tired. When she got the call she was a finalist for IU president, she said she jumped high in the air. On the night before she was introduced, she barely slept. She was lying in bed thinking about being introduced for what she called her dream job.
Pamela S. Whitten was named IU’s 19th president at a special Board of Trustees meeting Friday morning.
Soo Sup Cha has been teaching how to read “ing” sounds to his screen of first grade students. He reads to a gallery of faces on Zoom, and to the quiet, still rows of empty desks and empty chairs in front of him. In their own Zoom windows, his students all write down the letters on their paper — or likely their iPads — and Soo Sup asks them each to read what they wrote. The microphones all turn on.
Hoosiers could be waiting weeks to get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Assembly Hall site when the minimum age requirement in Indiana drops to 16 on Wednesday.
He paces because he’s bored, up and down the same aisle that used to be so loud you couldn’t hear the person next to you.
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house was added to IU’s quarantine list Saturday due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the fraternity.
She sets up her station as the sun rises, sectioned off by small partitions from the other five nurses on the Convention Center floor. Everything — gauze, hand sanitizer, wipes, laptop, Band-Aids and all her vials of vaccines for the day — must be in place.
UPDATE, Feb. 22: Sigma Delta Tau was taken off IU’s quarantine list Monday. The house spent roughly one week in quarantine. Evans Scholars is still listed as under quarantine on IU’s website as of Monday night.
When Michael Penix stretched the ball barely across the goal line against then-No. 8 Penn State, giving IU a long-awaited upset victory, Harry Crider thought he’d look up to see thousands of fans storming the field. He thought he’d join night-long parties on Kirkwood Avenue.
This story will be updated weekly to reflect IU dashboard updates. The lastest update was April 28.
All IU undergraduate students will be selected for COVID-19 mitigation testing at least once a week in effort to reach a goal of 50,000 total tests each week across all IU campuses, in an article posted to the school’s website Monday.
IU President Michael McRobbie plans to step down in June. This spring, IU will conclude its search and name McRobbie’s successor. The next president will be selected by an 18-member committee in charge of conducting a nationwide search, screening and interviewing candidates.
IU will provide COVID-19 vaccinations to all students, faculty and staff, Dr. Aaron Carroll, IU’s director of mitigation testing, confirmed during a webinar Wednesday.
Monroe County will use the Monroe Convention Center in Bloomington to administer the vaccines for COVID-19 beginning next week.
Indiana’s moving average of daily new COVID-19 cases continued to increase in the weeks after Christmas, according to the state’s Monday dashboard update.
IU will require students to receive an on-arrival test upon returning to Bloomington in January or February and revealed its plan for this testing in a recent update to the school’s COVID-19 website.